Application Awareness goes open source: Snort OpenAppID

Cisco Sourcefire recently announced that their Snort open source IDS/IPS 2.9.7 will now support free application visibility and control, called OpenAppID.  It will be fully integrated into the current Snort framework and offers a new application preprocessor and keyword ‘appid’ that can be used in any Snort rule.  OpenAppID will launch with detection for over 1400+ applications, providing Snort…
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